Guilds

Overview

Player Associations (also known as Guilds) are a huge part of the community in Star Wars Galaxies.

Even without joining a guild, every character has a Remote Player Association Access Device (RPAAD) in the Datapad on Data tab. The RPAAD is used to view a list of guilds. Guild names, abbreviation, and the number of characters in each guild are shown.Statistics of current and past guild wars may also be seen.

Click here for instructions to link your Guild Discord Chat to in-game Guild Chat

How to Start a Guild​

To create a guild you just need a "Player Association Galactic Registry" (PAGR) from an Architect, radial the PAGR and select the option Create a Guild. Specify the name and the abbreviation and Done!

A Player Association (PA) has at least 5 members, one of which is the Leader.

In a SWG guild, membership is usually part of the development of player designed cities, mayorship of these cities, and the ability to wage war with other guilds. Joining a guild is not a decision to make lightly. If you find yourself in a guild you don't like, it's easy join another.

To leave your current guild, enter the command: /guildremove self.

Guild Types​

Below are examples of Types of Guilds. SWG is a "sandbox" game, you can mix and match your own.

• Role Playing: Common since the beginning of SWG, some guilds go into the Star Wars universe through role playing. The level of strictness varies from guild to guild.
• Factional: Membership in an aligned guild requires that you earn the faction points to become either Imperial or Rebel. Usually if you are a new player and express interest in either, the recruiter will help you acquire the points so you can join, although it's easy enough to locate a faction terminal and get them yourself.
• Crafting: Crafting guilds work together to harvest resources, develop malls, and supply each other with sub-components that can be your own schematics (for example, Armorsmiths need Tailors to make synthetic cloth).
• Pilot: The advantages of a pilot guild include; it facilitates the exchange of raw space loot for Re-Engineering purposes, members can gain skill by dueling each other, difficult missions are easier tasked by organized groups.
• Entertainer: Entertainer guilds seem to be popular, and seem to be great ways to socialize and meet people.
• Language: Some guild are created for users who speak a specific language other than English. The reason for forming such guilds is often to provide a framework for players who don't feel comfortable using English.
• Nationality: National guilds are very similar to language-based guilds except membership of national guilds is restricted to players of a certain nationality.
• PvP: Player vs. Player guilds are typically faction-aligned guilds that are particularly organized in PvP combat.

Reasons for forming a Player Association​

Reasons for forming Player Associations (or Guild) are varied and may include a combination of any of the following:

1) To start an organization that consists of a closely knitted group of real life friends and/or family. Usually, these guilds are small in membership but can be very effective. A closely knitted group of friends or family can take part in run of the mill hunts or events, but cannot match to the larger scale activities a major guild can live up to. Similar to the latter, one may choose to instead have a closely knitted group of in-game friends.

2) To achieve a goal that cannot be executed alone. For example, a difficult quest or large scale battle in the Galactic Civil War. To achieve a specific goal, specific standards need to be put in place for recruits. These can be profession/faction/experience.

3) To found a city. While cities can be formed without guilds, an organized group of members would make founding a city more easy and efficient. Cities gives a guild a sense of accomplishment and a place to call home. Guild meetings and events can be held in player cities.

4) To lead a group of people. This doesn't necessarily mean the leader is power hungry. Leading a guild can bring a sense of accomplishment. Being respected, and helping other players is what leading an organization may be about. Leaders may also enjoy setting up a council or a certain "government" structure to their organization.

5) To gain fame. Many organizations want to be "famous" so to speak, being mentioned often on game forums or the like. Guilds may enjoy holding a private "empire" status.

6) To form a crafting company. Some guild-companies specialize in one area of crafter specialization, while other guild-companies may recruit all specializations of traders. Guild-companies usually have a mall where the guild puts its vendors. Guild-companies may also be founded because crafters want to share a highly concentrated resource area with some other players. Some guild companies recruit combat classes to harvest resources from animals, destroy monster lairs that spawn near the company's town, or to wage war with rival guild-companies.

RPAAD Radial Commands​

Options seen on Remote Player Association Access Device:

Non-Guild Member options:
1) Examine: object information
2) Destroy: Removes you from current guild
3) List of Guilds
4) List of Guild Wars

Additional Guild Member options:
5) Guild Management:
6) Member Management

Text Commands​

There are some useful commands for any member of a guild:

/guildshow - shows the Message of the Day (MOTD) and a full list of the guild members with their online/offline status, titles, ranks, etc.

/guildshowMOTD - shows the Message of the Day (MOTD)

/guildnotify - notifies in your chat window, when a guild member logs on and off.

/who <guild tag> - shows a list of online people with this tag (and random people with that combination of letters in their names)

/guildremove - remove target or self from your current guild


References:
MOTD, Welcome in game Mail and Discord Integration added with 2026 Jun 7 Patch